Tami Maurer, Coordinator of Religious Education
Grades K-2
Video: Catholic Sacraments - Anointing of the Sick from TheoMatters
Activity & Craft: Graces for the Sick Craft
Grades 3-5
Video: Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick from Astute Youth
Activity & Craft: Graces for the Sick Craft
Grades 6-8
Video: Anointing of the Sick - The Most Misunderstood Sacrament
Activity: Anointing of the Sick File Folder Game
Chad Grube, Director of Adult Faith Formation & Evangelization
"The priests of Judaism had power to cleanse the body from leprosy—or rather, not to cleanse it at all, but to declare a person as having been cleansed. . . . Our priests have received the power not of treating with the leprosy of the body, but with spiritual uncleanness; not of declaring cleansed, but of actually cleansing. . . . Priests accomplish this not only by teaching and admonishing, but also by the help of prayer. Not only at the time of our regeneration [in baptism], but even afterward, they have the authority to forgive sins: 'Is there anyone among you sick? Let him call in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven.'"
-- St. John Chrysostom in On the Priesthood
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